Clinical efficacy of oral ibuprofen sustained-release capsules combined with external application of Chinese medicine in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis
HE Han-wu
WU Long-zhang
Abstract：Objective To observe the clinical efficacy of oral ibuprofen sustained-release capsules combined with external application of Chinese medicine in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis.Methods Forty patients with knee osteoarthritis as the observation group and treated by oral ibuprofen sustained-release capsules combined with ex-ternal application of Chinese medicine.Forty cases in the control group were treated with oral ibuprofen sustained-re-lease capsules,10 days were used as a course of treatment.Results In the treatment group, 5 cases were cured, 20 cases were marked effective, 12 cases were effective and 3 cases were ineffective.In control group, 2 cases were cured, 13 cases were marked effective, 16 cases were effective and 9 cases were ineffective.The therapeutic effect of the observation group was better than that of the control group( P<0.05) .Compared with the scores before and after treatment, the scores in pain, walking distance, joints function, swelling and activity of daily living all decreased sig-nificantly in two groups, but the therapeutic effect of the observation group was better than that of the control group(P<0.05).Conclusion Ibuprofen sustained-release capsules combined with external application of Chinese medicine in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis has significant clinical efficacy and safety.It is worthy of clinical application.
Keywords：Knee osteoarthritisExternal application of Chinese medicineIbuprofen sustained-release capsules
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 44-46 )